Frogs and Mice.
Ne're these accursed beasts will I defend:
Command ought else, great Iove, but pardon this:
Nor durty Frogs Bellona will befriend,
Whose joy and pleasure in foule puddles is.
For as I loath the Mice for sundry wrongs:
So I detest base Frogs for croking songs,
Whose harsh unpleasant voyces in the night
Breed nought but terror to each mortall wight.
Command ought else, great Iove, but pardon this:
Nor durty Frogs Bellona will befriend,
Whose joy and pleasure in foule puddles is.
For as I loath the Mice for sundry wrongs:
So I detest base Frogs for croking songs,
Whose harsh unpleasant voyces in the night
Breed nought but terror to each mortall wight.
When I returne oft sweating from the warres,
And after fainting travell thinke to sleepe,
With their seditious brawles, and croking jarres,
Which in the filthy marishes they keepe:
Awake I lye, till mornings trumpeter
Gives warning for the day-starre to appeare,
And cheerfull Cock chants forth his wonted lay,
To shew the dawning of the joyfull day:
And after fainting travell thinke to sleepe,
With their seditious brawles, and croking jarres,
Which in the filthy marishes they keepe:
Awake I lye, till mornings trumpeter
Gives warning for the day-starre to appeare,
And cheerfull Cock chants forth his wonted lay,
To shew the dawning of the joyfull day:
Though we are gods, yet let us all beware
To succour in our person either part:
For if these meete the gods, they will not spare
To strike them with their javelins to the heart:
But let us rather joy to see this fray,
Where we behold their ruine and decay.
Thus Pallas said. To whom incontinent
The heavenly Senate gave a full consent.
To succour in our person either part:
For if these meete the gods, they will not spare
To strike them with their javelins to the heart:
But let us rather joy to see this fray,
Where we behold their ruine and decay.
Thus Pallas said. To whom incontinent
The heavenly Senate gave a full consent.
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